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    Airframe Family: Grumman TBF / TBM Avenger
    Latest Model:TBM-3E Avenger
    Last Military Serial:85869 USN
    Construction Number:2688
    Last Civil Registration:F-AZJA
    Latest Owner or Location:Melun Villaroche, Paris, Seine et Marne

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as a TBM-3E by General Motors.

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Navy with BuNo 85869.

    24 August 1955

    At NAS Litchfield Park AZ for storage.

    From 1963 to 1970

    To Aircraft Specialties Inc, Mesa AZ with new c/r N9927Z.

    Operated as fire service #E39.

    1968


    Photographer: Neil Aird
    Notes: At Mesa Falcon Field

    To Aircraft Specialities, Willcox, AZ keeping c/r N9927Z.

    Operated as fire service #C3.

    October 1979


    Photographer: Geoff Goodall
    Notes: Grumman TBM-3 Avenger N9927Z was fire tanker #39, but was rigged for insecticide spraying at Mesa, Arizona in October 1979

    January 1981


    Photographer: Eric Bannwarth
    Notes: N9927Z - TBM-3 Avenger - Globe Air in January 1981


    Photographer: Mike Henniger

    April 1981

    To Globe Air Inc, Mesa AZ keeping c/r N9927Z.

    From 1986 to 1988

    To Justus O. Jackson, Comstock TX keeping c/r N9927Z.

    Restored back to full military configuration with turret.

    Markings Applied: USN/SK-401

    1989

    To Didier Chable, Melun-Villaroche, France keeping c/r N9927Z.

    4 May 1990

    Civil registration, N9927Z, cancelled.

    20 June 1990

    To Chable Didier, Bondoufle, Aeroport de Paris with new c/r F-AZJA (Grumman Tbm-3e, 85869).
    Based at Melun Villaroche.

    Based at Melun Villaroche, Paris, Seine et Marne.
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    16 July 1994


    Photographer: Ken Videan
    Notes: At Flying Legends Duxford (EGSU).


    Photographer: Pieter van t Hof/SG Woensdrecht
    Notes: Saint Dizier-Robinson (France) airshow 01/07/2017.Fleet Air Arm (Royal Navy / UK) D-Day color scheme
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     American Aviation Historical Society
    American Aviation Historical Society
    Aviation History Site by Geoff Goodall
    DGCA Civil Aircraft Register (France)
    Euro Demobbed by Horrex, Ray, Boulanger, Dunn, McGhee and Wood
    Federal Aviation Administration in the United States of America
    Individual Contributors
     Terry Fletcher
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